Located in the Scottsdale Shopping Centre, Shinbay is a Japanese restaurant popular for its omakase tasting. The restaurant has an elegant ambiance to it due to its dim yellow and purple lighting. It offers family, couples and pub style seating in a formal manner. Dishes served at Shinbay are considered as edible work of art.

The food served at Shinbay is done in parts of three or four course meals. The patrons choose between a selection of their favoured nigiri sushi, warm dish and cold dish. There's also a chef's special course that offers more than five dishes for $100 for five people. Some of its popular dishes are fluke in grapeseed oil, marinated tuna and blue point oyster. Shinbay's dishes are served with an artistic flair, which is an important part of their sushi tradition.

One of the best meals we have ever had in Arizona, or anywhere. This is a fixed price, 3 or 4-course dinner. Magnificent food. First dish was a white fish carpaccio, which 'had us at hello.' Beautiful first bite. Other courses included a Japanese beef and about 7-8 types of sushi, all of which were completely different flavors. Amazing! Ended with an egg custard with fruit, which was beautiful. Our waitress, Megan, was absolutely delightful. This is not only one of the best Japanese restaurants we've eaten at, but one of our top 10 meals. Expensive, yes. Unforgettable? Absolutely.

Overall food was great. Definitely Americanized in terms of the size of the course meal. I would love to have just sushi instead of sushi as a part of their course meal. The sushi was definitely impressive!

We have had Japenese food in some of the best restaurants in the world and this would make our top 5. If you are fond of authentic Japanese food this is a MUST. They also accommodated a gluten allergy, which was much appreciated.